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Mathematical Treasure: 16th-century Album of Geometric Drawings

Author(s): 
Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University)

Sometime in the 16th century, an unknown person in southern Germany prepared a folio of more than 30 watercolor sketches of perspectives on the regular solids. Nothing more is known of the creator, but Australian blogger Peacay offered some speculations in 2015.

Geometric watercolor from a 16th-century German portfolio.

Geometric watercolor from a 16th-century German portfolio.

Geometric watercolor from a 16th-century German portfolio.

This work has been fully digitized by Wolfenbüttel Digital Library of the Herzog August Library, Germany, and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany License (CC BY-SA).

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Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University), "Mathematical Treasure: 16th-century Album of Geometric Drawings," Convergence (December 2022)